Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 29
One note of it could cure all kinds of sickness; another could satisfy hunger and thirst, yet another could lighten all heaviness of heart, and a fourth could draw any one that heard it even against his will.
Who acts: One note, another, fourth, one · What happens: cure, satisfy, lighten, draw, hear, note · To what, where: kinds, hunger, heaviness, one, horn
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One note, another, fourth, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 note | nummod |
| 2 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cure | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 note | nmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cure | aux |
| 6 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 kinds | det |
| 8 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cure | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sickness | case |
| 10 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kinds | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 satisfy | punct |
| 12 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 14 satisfy | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 satisfy | aux |
| 14 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cure | conj |
| 15 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 satisfy | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thirst | cc |
| 17 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunger | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lighten | punct |
| 19 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 lighten | cc |
| 20 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 22 lighten | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 lighten | aux |
| 22 | lighten | lighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 satisfy | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 heaviness | det |
| 24 | heaviness | heaviness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lighten | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heaviness | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 draw | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 draw | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fourth | det |
| 30 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 draw | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 draw | aux |
| 32 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 satisfy | conj |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 one | det |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 draw | obj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 heard | nsubj |
| 36 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 one | acl:relcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 heard | obj |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 41 will | advmod |
| 39 | against | against | ADP | _ | 41 will | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 will | nmod:poss |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 heard | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | could | One note of horn | all kinds of sickness | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer kind=Source | ||||
| 2 | satisfy | could | another | hunger and thirst | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lighten | could | another | all heaviness of heart | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heaviness=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw | could | a fourth | any one | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | any one | horn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | note | horn | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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